Introduction
Brother Smith,
I have received from the hands of the Wisconsin and Illinois Con-
ference Committee the following questions. I append a reply to each of
them, that both question and reply may appear in the same number of
the Review for the benefit of the brethren and sisters of the Wisconsin
and Illinois conference and all others who wish to learn the facts in
the case.
Question Number One
Did you receive your views upon health reform before visiting the
Health Institute at Dansville, N. Y., or before you had read works on
the subject?
Answer
It was at the house of Brother A. Hilliard, at Otsego, Mich., June
6, 1863, that the great subject of Health Reform was open before me
in vision. I did not visit Dansville till August, 1864, fourteen months
after I had the view. I did not read any works upon health until I had
written Spiritual Gifts, Vols. 3 and 4, Appeal to Mothers, and had
sketched out most of my six articles in the six numbers of “How to
Live.” I did not know that such a paper existed as the Laws of Life,
published at Dansville, N. Y. I had not heard of the several works
upon health, written by Dr. J. C. Jackson, and other publications at
Dansville, at the time I had the view named above. I did not know
that such works existed until September, 1863, when in Boston, Mass.,
my husband saw them advertised in a periodical called the Voice of
the Prophets, published by Elder J. V. Himes. My husband ordered
the works from Dansville and received them at Topsham, Maine. His
business gave him no time to peruse them, and as I determined not
to read them until I had written out my views, the books remained in
their wrappers. As I introduced the subject of health to friends where I
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